![]() I can't wait to get my hands on this book. Please read the piece, it's a toxic horror and a trenchant howl against the fucking stupid male-philic literary establishment. When my publicist tries to pitch the book to NPR's Terry Gross, a producer tells him that Terry likes the "Shutter" part of the title but not the "babe" part. I tell them it's usually my eye behind the camera, not my vagina. The cover that the publisher designs has a naked cartoon torso against a pink background with a camera covering the genitalia. Anything besides a title with the word "babe" in it. I beg for Shuttergirl instead, to reclaim at least "girl," as Lena Dunham would so expertly do years later. Random House changes the book's title to Shutterbabe, which a friend came up with. The book is sold on the basis of a proposal and a first chapter under the title Newswhore, which is the insult often lobbed at us both externally and from within our own ranks-a way of noting, with a combination of shame and black humor, the vulture-like nature of our livelihood, and a means of reclaiming, as I see it, the word "whore," since I want to write about sexual and gender politics as well. I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary. I would like to submit this as Exhibit A for the failure of traditional publishing to redress issues of sexism, not to mention shooting itself in its stupid foot and being appallingly condescending to one of its strongest demographics.īut I believe this paragraph from the author's incredible (and incredibly enraging) recent piece on the Nation should stand by itself to support my case: ![]()
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